Drawer cart with in-mold labels

ABSTRACT

A drawer cart with in-mold labels includes a cart and a plurality of drawers made by injection molding. Each drawer has a housing compartment opened upward and a display surface. The drawers are slidably mounted onto the cart with the display surfaces exposed outwards and can be partially drawn away from the cart to expose the housing compartment. The display surface contains an in-mold label formed during the injection molding. The in-mold label has patterns for indication and visual aesthetic, and also facilitating classification of goods held in the drawers. The patterns on the in-mold label can be designed differently in response to varying display surfaces and can be combined to form a whole pattern to enhance total design sense and meet use requirements.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a drawer cart and particularly to a drawer cart with display surfaces for indication and aesthetic.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

A conventional drawer cart 1, referring to FIG. 1, mainly includes a cart 2 and a plurality of drawers 3. Each drawer 3 has a housing compartment 4 opened upward. The drawers 3 are slidably mounted onto the cart 2 and can be drawn partially away from the cart 2 to expose the housing compartment 4 to allow users to load various goods 5 (such as hand tools) into the housing compartment 4. The cart 2 can be moved around as required to facilitate the users to fetch the goods 5 from the housing compartment 4.

The conventional drawer cart 1 usually is shared by many people, and the display surface 6 of each drawer 3 does not have any notation or symbol. Users often do not know which housing compartment 4 of which drawer 3 to return the goods 5 after finish of using. As a result the returned goods 5 are often put into a randomly chosen drawer 3. This often creates difficulty for other people to find out or get the goods 5 needed.

To remedy the aforesaid problem another conventional approach of hanging an external tag (not shown in the drawing) to indicate the goods 5 contained in each drawer 3 has been adopted. However, the external hanging tag is easily damaged and dropping off when the drawer cart 1 is moved around. Hence it still cannot fully meet use requirements.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a drawer cart with display surfaces for indication and aesthetic.

To achieve the foregoing object, the invention provides a drawer cart with in-mold labels. It includes a cart and a plurality of drawers made by injection molding. Each drawer has a housing compartment opened upward and a display surface. The drawer is slidably mounted onto the cart with the display surface exposed outwards. The display surface also contains an in-mold label formed during the injection molding.

The in-mold label has patterns for indication or aesthetic to make the display surface provide indication function or appeal function. As a result, the drawer cart has greater added-value and users can dispose the goods according to selected categories to improve usability and facilitate holding of varying goods, and the holding places of different goods are clearly marked. All this enables the drawer cart to better meet use requirements.

The foregoing, as well as additional objects, features and advantages of the invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a conventional drawer cart.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the drawer cart of the invention.

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the drawer cart of the invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the drawer cart in a use condition.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the drawer cart of the invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of yet another embodiment of the drawer cart of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Please refer to FIGS. 2 and 3, the present invention aims to provide a drawer cart 10 which includes a cart 20 and a plurality of drawers 30 made by injection molding. Each drawer 30 has a housing compartment 31 opened upward and a display surface 32. The drawer 30 is slidably mounted onto the cart 20 with the display surface 32 exposed outwards. The display surface 32 has an in-mold label 40 formed thereon during the injection molding.

The cart 20 also has a plurality of slide tracks 21 to slidably hold the drawers 30 thereon and allow the drawers 30 to be drawn away from the cart 20 to expose the housing compartments 31. The display surface 32 further has at least one retainer 33 corresponding to each slide track 21 to prevent the drawer 30 from sliding too deep into the slide track 21, thereby the position of the drawer 30 can be confined. The display surface 32 also can have a grip knob 34 to facilitate gripping by a user's hand to draw the drawer 30.

Also referring to FIG. 4, after the drawer 30 has been drawn outwards, various goods 50 (such as hand tools) can be loaded into it. The in-mold label 40 may contain patterns for indication or aesthetic purpose. The cart 20 can be moved around to facilitate fetching and use of the goods 50 by users as desired.

Please refer to FIG. 5, varying display surfaces 32 of different drawers 30 also can form a whole pattern 60 with a portion of the whole pattern 60 shown on each display surface 32. As shown in the drawing, the whole pattern 60 can be a Christmas tree. Hence a total design sense of the drawer cart 10 can be enhanced to increase added-value thereof.

Referring to FIG. 6, in addition to the in-mold label 40 formed on the display surface 32 of the drawer 30, three side surfaces 35 on the left and right sides and opposite side of the display surface 32 also can contain respectively another in-mold label 41, thereby to add appearance color of other visual angles to further enhance the added-value.

As a conclusion, when the display surface and other three side surfaces of the drawer are made by injection molding, an in-mold label can be formed on each of the side surfaces at the same time. Through the patterns formed on the in-mold label, indication function and appeal function can be provided to enhance the added-value of the drawer cart. Such a structure also allows users to load and store goods according to desired categories to improve usability. The pattern can adopt a whole pattern to enhance total design sense to further increase the added-value of the drawer cart and meet use requirements. 

1. A drawer cart with in-mold labels, comprising: a cart; and a plurality of drawers made by injection molding, each of the plurality of drawers including a housing compartment opened upward and a display surface, the plurality of drawers being slidably mounted onto the cart with the display surfaces exposed outwards, the display surface including an in-mold label formed during the injection molding.
 2. The drawer cart of claim 1, wherein the cart includes a plurality of slide tracks to slidably hold the drawers.
 3. The drawer cart of claim 2, wherein the display surface includes at least one retainer corresponding to one of the plurality of slide tracks.
 4. The drawer cart of claim 1, wherein the display surface includes a grip knob.
 5. The drawer cart of claim 1, wherein each of the drawers further includes two side surfaces on a left side and a right side of the display surface and an opposite surface of the display surface that are respectively formed with another in-mode label. 